Submitter’s comments: My friend sent this to me when she was looking into the college. You would think with all the money they get from tuition they would be able to afford a web page that wasn’t made by an 11-year old boy.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I could excuse the page if it were designed by an 11-year old. I should excuse it because it’s for an art school but, because some irresponsible dickhead doesn’t understand that flashing colors could cause seizures, I have to make it a Daily Sucker. Oh. The word “irresponsible” in the phrase “irresponsible dickhead” is an unnecessary modifier.

What in the hell was s/he thinking? Hopefully, outing them might cause the page to be changed.

Yale School of Art (WARNING. Could cause seizures)

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Yale School of Art – Example of Dickhead Web Design for Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The HTML <base> tag is a useful tag for Web designers who need to work on testing servers or their own development servers before delivering final HTML code to a client. But many people don't know how to use it effectively. Plus, if you use frames, you can use the base tag to define the default frame target.

More Help with the BASE Tag

• How to Use the HTML <base> Tag
• The base Tag
• XHTML base Module
• HTML Frames Targets - How to Target Links in HTML Frames

Use the tag to help your work originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 15:24:44.

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Vincent Flanders’ comments: Vook “blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.” I like to think of it as a multimedia book. Vooks come in web-based and mobile-based (like for my iPad) versions. Unfortunately, you can’t buy one book and read it on two different platforms. You have to buy two different books. Duh.

What caught my interest was a blurb I read while on my iPad about a new “Vook” titled, Reckless Road: Guns N’ Roses And The Making Of Appetite For Destruction. The link took me to the iTunes store and here’s a screen shot from my iPad.

I decided to click the “Developer Web Site” button and was taken to Vook’s web page about the Guns and Roses vook. Notice where the arrows I inserted are pointing. I click the “View Trailer” button and here’s what I get. A message telling me that I need to upgrade my Flash player. Uh…where have you guys been? Don’t you know Steve Jobs won’t let Flash on the iPad? You folks need to detect the User Agent String and make sure the iPad gets an HTML 5 video. Since you were too lazy/stupid to figure this out, you probably won’t figure out the User Agent String, so I’ll just give it to you:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10

Restless Road – Vook

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Vook — Example of Even More Horribly Stupid Usability / Web Design for Monday, May 24, 2010

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I finally succumbed to the Borg. I bought an iPad. My initial reaction can be summed up in 3 words — “iPod Touch Plus.”

I used my PC to go out and look for iPad apps at iTunes (that statement should tell you something about the iPad). I found an interesting app called “reader” by dBelement. I was stunned to discover the home page is hard to read. Uh. IT’S HARD TO READ THE HOME PAGE OF A SITE PROMOTING A BOOK READER???????

That’s what AccessColor reported. Here’s a screen shot of the report. Over 93% of the text fails the W3C guidelines.

In case they change the home page, here’s a screen capture. My watermarks are so much brighter than the text that it’s difficult to find the text on the home page. I think there’s a point here.

The good news is the dBelement page looks great on the iPad because they created a special mobile version.

dBelement

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dBelement — Example of Horribly Stupid Web Design for Monday, May 24, 2010

There are hundreds and hundreds of Web designers you can follow on Twitter. And there are as many reasons for following them as there are people to follow. But these are some of the Web design and development experts and sites that I follow to get my fill of Web design news in 140-character chunks.

What's it Like as a Web Designer?

• Web Designers on Twitter
• Who do you follow for Web design on Twitter?
• Reader Stories: Working as a Web Designer
• Blogs About Web Design
• Meet Webmasters - Organizations, Email, Forums, Chat

What Web Designers Should You Follow on Twitter? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 at 07:38:01.

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I would like to introduce to you Darla Ferrara. She has joined the About.com Web Design / HTML site as a writer focusing on XML. If you have specific questions about XML, Darla will be writing articles to help you learn more about this topic. I hope you all enjoy her articles as much as I am glad to have her on the team. Welcome, Darla!

I'd like to Introduce Darla Ferrara, XML Writer originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 12:24:03.

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I downloaded the free app Font Displayer. It's an app to show you how a font would look at various sizes, columns, and background colors. There are some shortfalls in the app, but if you like fonts, you'll like it. Best of all, it's a free app. Read my review of Font Displayer iPad app. Do you know of any good font apps for iPhone, iPad, or Android? Why not submit a review iPhone and iPad apps or Android apps.

More iPhone and iPad App Reviews

• Font Displayer iPad App Review
• Ideate iPad App
• Markup - iPad HTML Editor
• KyTekHTMLEditor - iPhone/iPad HTML Editor

An App to View How Fonts Look originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 07:36:17.

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